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How To Control Your Negative Thoughts
Break Free from Negative Thoughts: Proven Strategies to Control Anxiety and Find Inner Peace
Negative thoughts can be crippling, debilitating, and down-right awful, huh? The over-thinking, worrying, and self-doubt can send the best of people into a very dark place. Negative thoughts are untrustworthy and can fool you into thinking there’s a danger when there isn’t.
Controlling the negative thoughts in your head is essential for overcoming social anxiety. There are a number of ways that you can control negative thoughts.
Develop your vigilance
To curb your negative thoughts, you need to be aware of the exact moment they kick in. To do this, we observe our thoughts in order to identify scenarios and inner speeches that are unproductive, negative, or essentially ego-centered. Pay attention: your negative thoughts are with you everywhere.
A lot of people build impressions about themselves — often negative — and then live their whole lives within it. They build notions such as, “Oh, I am too dull; I can’t make anyone happy” or “I am too old, I cannot do this or that”. This causes a lot of worries when particular situations arise. The effect of projecting one impression onto others makes the situation worse…